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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/1105/1224306893017.html
LIFE: The power of positive thinking is immense, but a little negative thought can also be effective, if harnessed correctly. MAUREEN GAFFNEY suggests ways to achieve the optimum balance of positive and negative thought
Last bit is good too:
Accentuate the positive
Here are some silver linings on our current clouds, that might go some way towards helping your positive/negative ratios
Unemployment might be almost 15 per cent but there’s still a shortage of skilled IT, pharmaceutical and biomedical professionals.
We live in a beautiful country and it costs nothing to get out and enjoy it. Coillte sees more than 18 million visitors to its forests each year. With 10 forest parks and 150 recreation sites around the country, there’s one near you.
Yes it rains but, as our emigrants in far-flung corners will attest, if you’ve ever spent time in the kind of extreme climates that most of the rest of the world endures, you’d appreciate our comfy temperate one.
Babies are pure potential and Ireland has the highest birth rate in Europe. You can be pretty sure the next generation will do better than the current one.
If you have to emigrate there’s no better country to have to emigrate from. Irish networks are to be found, ready and waiting to help, in every part of the globe. Use them.
Yes, emigration is a scourge but it also brings with it the opportunity to gain great new skills that you can, when the time is right, bring back home.
If you have a business idea, you’re probably more likely to get business angel investment than ever before – it’s not like they’re going to be investing in property.
There has never been a better time to find a cheap retail unit or a flexible office lease. Landlords are listening and upwards-only rent reviews are a thing of the past, at least for newcomers.
We’ve gone one better than Plato’s philosopher king – we’ve got a poet president.
In the words of septuagenarian cheese maker Louis Grubb, whose famous best selling Cashel Blue was born during a previous downturn , “Recession, it comes around, doesn’t it?” And it goes away again.
Irish food and drink exports are an extraordinary success story with an 11 per cent rise last year
After a lengthy project, salmon are back in the Tolka river – that’s three rivers with wild salmon stocks in the capital
Greece’s financial woes and Bangkok’s floods are far worse than ours – a little perspective goes a long way.
We still have the best musicians, mimics, comics, cranks, critics, we have kingfishers breeding like billyo, and we still have something called “Galway time”.
Our amazing national galleries and museums are almost all free to visit, and they repay each visit
86 per cent of 25-34 year olds here have completed upper Secondary education (ie the Leaving Cert) compared to 81 per cent across the OECD.
Not everyone is broke – we still have €87 billion in the bank (that’s Irish private household deposits)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/1105/1224306893017.html
LIFE: The power of positive thinking is immense, but a little negative thought can also be effective, if harnessed correctly. MAUREEN GAFFNEY suggests ways to achieve the optimum balance of positive and negative thought
Last bit is good too:
Accentuate the positive
Here are some silver linings on our current clouds, that might go some way towards helping your positive/negative ratios
Unemployment might be almost 15 per cent but there’s still a shortage of skilled IT, pharmaceutical and biomedical professionals.
We live in a beautiful country and it costs nothing to get out and enjoy it. Coillte sees more than 18 million visitors to its forests each year. With 10 forest parks and 150 recreation sites around the country, there’s one near you.
Yes it rains but, as our emigrants in far-flung corners will attest, if you’ve ever spent time in the kind of extreme climates that most of the rest of the world endures, you’d appreciate our comfy temperate one.
Babies are pure potential and Ireland has the highest birth rate in Europe. You can be pretty sure the next generation will do better than the current one.
If you have to emigrate there’s no better country to have to emigrate from. Irish networks are to be found, ready and waiting to help, in every part of the globe. Use them.
Yes, emigration is a scourge but it also brings with it the opportunity to gain great new skills that you can, when the time is right, bring back home.
If you have a business idea, you’re probably more likely to get business angel investment than ever before – it’s not like they’re going to be investing in property.
There has never been a better time to find a cheap retail unit or a flexible office lease. Landlords are listening and upwards-only rent reviews are a thing of the past, at least for newcomers.
We’ve gone one better than Plato’s philosopher king – we’ve got a poet president.
In the words of septuagenarian cheese maker Louis Grubb, whose famous best selling Cashel Blue was born during a previous downturn , “Recession, it comes around, doesn’t it?” And it goes away again.
Irish food and drink exports are an extraordinary success story with an 11 per cent rise last year
After a lengthy project, salmon are back in the Tolka river – that’s three rivers with wild salmon stocks in the capital
Greece’s financial woes and Bangkok’s floods are far worse than ours – a little perspective goes a long way.
We still have the best musicians, mimics, comics, cranks, critics, we have kingfishers breeding like billyo, and we still have something called “Galway time”.
Our amazing national galleries and museums are almost all free to visit, and they repay each visit
86 per cent of 25-34 year olds here have completed upper Secondary education (ie the Leaving Cert) compared to 81 per cent across the OECD.
Not everyone is broke – we still have €87 billion in the bank (that’s Irish private household deposits)
